Bottling-machine attachment.



M. L. STANGL.

BOTTLING MACHINE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13. 1914.

1,158,740. Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

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BOTTLING-MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 19 15.

Application filed July 13, 1914. Serial l\To. 850,838.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Mrcrnmr. L. STANGL, a

citizen of the .United States, residing at Salt. .Lake City, in the county of 'Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements. in Bottling-Machine Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottling machines and has for its object to provide an attachment for use on a bottling machine to center bottles of smaller sizes on such machines wherebythe machine may readily be changed from one in which quart'bottles may be centered and filled to receive, hold and center pints or smaller sizes for filling.

These objects I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters and numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several. figures, and as described in the specification forming a part of this application and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings in which I have shown a substantial embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the bottle holding and centering elements of a filling machine and my device thereon with a pint bottle in elevation adjacent the receiving table and removing lever, parts cut away. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of my bottle attachment. Fig. 3 is an elevation ofthe bottle supporting part of the machine with my attachment in place therein, parts cut away. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 5 is a front view of the bottle supporting element of a filling machine with my attachment in place thereon. V

In using the bottle filling machines patented and now on the market and in general use for filling bottles, I experienced quite a lot of inconvenience and loss of time in changing the machine from filling the usual quart sized bottles to pints and to avoid such loss of time I invented the hereinafter described attachment which may be rapidly placed in position in such machines whereby smaller sized bottles may be as accurately centered and filled as the larger size.

In the drawings wherein I have shown my attachment and as much of the old machine as is necessary to show how and in what parts thereof it is secured I have designated the bottle moving cylinder as A, the bottle supporting member as B, the receiving table as C, and the removing lever as D.

Said bottle supporting member B has a seating base a on which the bottles rest. On

one edge of said base a is provided an up standing segmental flange Z) and a further extended bottle rest piece 0. The said rest piece 0 consists of a vertical portion 0 having laterally extended curved arms 0 which are given the same curvature as the said flange o and positioned in vertical alinement thereover.

My attachment consists of a curved semicircular member 1, which is spaced from and securely held in position on the old bottle supporting member B by resting on the said base a and having rearwardly extended lugs 2 hooked over said flange Z). A vertical slot 3 is cut in each of said lugs 2 to receive the upper edge of said flange Z). Said lugs 2 are spaced apart and contact with the vertical portion of said rest piece 0 to prevent lateral movement of my device. An integral upstanding rest piece 4 with curved arms 5 thereon is provided on said member 1. The ends of said member 1 are curved outwardly and cut to contact with the inner side of said flange b.

The operation of my attachment is as follows:-I provide a number of my attachments equal to the number of bottle supporting members B,and when it is desirable to change from filling the quarts to pint sized bottles I slip one of my attachments into each of said supporting members B by hooking said lugs 2, over the upper edge of said flange b, and the machine may be operated for filling the pint bottles as it had previously for filling the quarts. The said lugs 2 will hold the device in place and center the pint bottles for filling. When filled the space between the arms 5 and members 1 will allow the removing lever D to engage the bottle and slide it onto the table C Having thus described my invention, I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim l. A bottling machine attachment consisting of a semi-circular member having outwardly curved end portions; spaced apart rearwardly extended lugs having a longitudinal open slot in the bottom of each; an integral vertically extended member be tween said lugs; and outwardly curved arms on the upper end thereof, said attachment adapted to be applied to a bottle support ofi the character described.

2. The combination 05E a bottle-supporting member having a horizontal base and an upturned semi-circular flange thereon and an integral vertically eXtended rest portion 0, with a concentric semi-cincn'lar detachableniember having outwardly curved end pontions spaced apart mea rvvardly extended lugs on said semi-circular member having an copies this 'pate nt' may -be obtained for open slot in each, and adapted to b'e'hooked over said upturned flange and to bear against s'a'id vertically extended rest portion to prevent circurniferential or lateral .displacement; and an upwardly extended rest lsizguratm e in'presence of a Witness.

MICHAEL L. STANGL.

Witness: 7 SAM R NEY. a 

